Video transcript of meeting
- Chit chat
- Planetary imaging discussion
- Saanich News reporting Lucky Budd’s daytime shot of Jupiter
- RASC GA & AGM – Chris Gainor
- Last weekend in June 25-28
- Good speakers on all four days
- Sunday 3PM – AGM & election – no charge
- Monday – Virtual tours of observatories
- Mars panel discussion
- Registration site
- The Sun and Stars – Randy Enkin
- Star Dances
- Defocus stars to see their colours when photographing them
- Jiggle camera setup to see deliberate star tracks
- Staying at Magic Lake on Pender Island last week – looking south
- Jiggle the tripod to see colours in the star tracks
- Star Dances
- CRD lighting of bicycle trails – Dave Robinson
- Widening trails from 2-3 metres to 6.5-7 metres
- Lighting the whole system of trails – 3 segments
- Please respond to the online survey by June 13th
- LED lights, warm colour, down-facing, 4.5m poles
- PBX Engineering – consulting engineers – Dave wants to talk with them
- It appears traffic volumes will increase significantly and bicycle speeds are bound to increase with e-bikes
- Edmonton Observatory – Dave Robinson
- Roman Unyk installing the azimuth bearing in the mount for the 32″ telescope – a time lapse video and discussion.
- Black Nugget Lake observatory, near Riley, Alberta.
- FDAO events – Lauri Roche
- Star Party – this Saturday, June 12th – Is Anybody Out There? Life outside the solar system – James Di Francesco
- Summer Solstice celebrations – June 20th
- Annular Eclipse photos
- Ask An Astronomer – Scott along with the RASC EAA group (David Lee, Brock, Dave Payne)
- More star parties – ever 2 weeks for awhile, then monthly
- Buy & Sell – Reg Dunkley
- Gord Bell (brother) is selling Diane Bell’s astronomy gear – binoculars, telescope, eyepieces
- Nelson Walker is selling his Tele Vue 101 apo refractor, classic tripod, and eyepiece collection
- Both listings will appear on our Buy & Sell page soon
- Gianluca Massi – Virtual telescope from Rome – looking for contacts here in Canada who plan to take photos of the annular eclipse for his live broadcast on Thursday – contact Randy Enkin or Gianluca directly ASAP
- Juno orbiting Jupiter – Reg Dunkley
- Mission extended for several more years
- Recent close encounter with Ganymede – 625 miles!
- 2012 Transit of Venus review – Joe Carr
- June 5, 2012 – afternoon to sunset – 9 years ago
- Members’ photo gallery
- Skynews – June 2012 – see President Lauri Roche’s message
Astronomy Cafe – June 7, 2021